Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
More evidence I'm wasted on these people.. driving from Denver to Moab:
Passing a town called Parachute, "Got some bad news in Parachute.. but luckily they let me down easy"
Nothing.
Passing a town called Cameo, "Nice of this town to make a special appearance!"
Nothing.
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Omg 🤤🤤. That looks like something Baker's delight would aim for, but theirs just end up being way too bready. Yours looks properly moist and thicc with all the goodies
Had the most horribly vivid dream I was pregnant and lost the baby, a feat made wholly impossible by the simple fact I'm a dude. While I often (like weirdly often) have pregnancy or baby related dreams I rarely have them about myself, so this one was a trip.
That is most definitely a trip especially the fact that you regularly have pregnancy/baby dreams, as a guy. Do you have any theories as to where it might come from?
No idea! On average I reckon I have a about one a week, this week I've had two. I often joke that I've delivered so many babies in my dreams I could probably do it for real at this point.
What's extra weird is I'm someone who probably won't have kids for moral and ethical reasons.
Childfree people unite 🤝 I do very occasionally have pregnancy dreams too (less surprising as a woman), but they are uncomfortably arousing and I usually wake up feeling very weird because I do not want kids for probably the same reasons as you
If you believe that dreams have some form of meaning, pregnancy dreams mean that "it’s time for you to re-imagine your life and have some confidence in your potential." Or that something new is about to happen. But of course, again, this is if you believe in dreams and believe that they are trying to tell you something.
I had a dream about meeting/talking with one of the voice actors on Critical Role, which means like seeing a celebrity represents your beliefs or understanding of them, whereas dreams about being good friends with celebrities represent your idealised version of someone you know in your life. So 🤷 it's all woo-woo stuff.
I just added up everything I have spent on my garden project so far. Boy those little costs can add up! I'm way over my initial rough budget, my general spending account has been completely obliterated.
Fortunately the Marketplace sales have also been going well. My BBQ has just gone off to join a youth group.
I put a job on airtasker for someone to remove my pile of rose prunings, but apparently that is going to cost way more than I expected. So I'm buying a second hand mulcher this morning and will instead obliterate them into little bits to be buried at the bottom of the new vegie garden beds.
That mulcher may be a huge benefit to your garden. I couldn't live without mine. Does wonders for soil condition.
It should help. I have had a mulcher before that didn't work that well and tended to clog, this one is a different style (it is a crusher rather than blades) that is supposed to work better for dry twigs etc. rather than leafy waste. The leafy stuff I can just run over with the lawnmower anyway, it's the twigs I need a mulcher for so hopefully I'll have better results.
I love my chipper/mulcher. The green bin only goes out for fucking piece of shit yukka leaves... which'll clog the mechanisms. Fuck I hate yukkas.
There are billions of thorns. I expect the mulch to be quite prickly, which is why I'm going to bury it. Hopefully I can manage the process with less bloodshed than was incurred cutting the thing down. At least it doesn't have it's kikuyu ally for protection this time.🙂
One of the lowest end... Ozito silent shredder. From the reviews it should work pretty well as long as you don't try and put through green leafy stuff which just clogs it up.
Yeah silent shredders are basically just crimpers. Great for lengths that splinter, crap for everything else
I've just been testing it out on some previously cut branches, it's doing an amazing job, chomping through branches I expected to be way too big. I can see that it would be a mess if you tried to put fresh leafy stuff through, it would just clog up. But dried sticks it is handling like a champion. It's quite big pieces, more like wood chips than a fine mulch.
reddit melbourne looks a bit sad, one post and even that got downvoted
r/Melbourne looks pretty heathy as a sub (engagement wise) with posting frequency, except the DT section.
We are opposite here.
For some reason nobody posts separately here. (Few exceptions of course.)
Tbh their DT might be quieter but has a wider range of posters (and always will I think, since reddit is still going to be dominant for quite a while). Over here I think it's turned into a chatroom mainly for 5-7 regulars lol. Including yours truly.
The daily thread seems a bit like a copy of all the all posts which would pretty much instantly get downvoted in the before times. Much less conversation. I've not re-subbed to it since I was permanently suspended on my old account. I have a look it at now and then and yeah, we killed the old daily thread. I've noticed that most of the people who didn't come across to here have stopped posting in that dt as well. No surprise, it's a bit shit.
Not as impressive as Catfish's efforts but nevertheless I present to you..
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True, and with the added benefit of me knowing exactly what's in them.
Oh man those look divine..
What sort of dipping sauce are we rolling with today?
The Minipeelers just like a squeeze of lemon juice and some tomato sauce. Mr Peeler likes BBQ sauce.
They look wonderful. I’d be downing them as soon as they were plated up.
Sunday roast let’s go. I should make yorkies with it this time.
Bolar blade. My Honda Civic of beef roast. All browned up and in the slow cooker now. Should be ready around 3:30.
I believe doing vegemite and cheese on toast at 3am means you're an adult.
You know how to use a toaster.
You have cheese and bread.
You are not double dipping the vegemite or butter.
You can grill the cheese onto the vegemite T and remove it without burning yourself or the cheese.
You're choosing a snack with minimal clean up.
You're wise enough to realise the sodium in the vegemite is likely going to be a good idea after drinks.
PSA if you've flown with Qantas in the last 12 months login to your frequent flyer account before August 30 to claim your bonus 1000 Qantas Points or 30 Qantas Status Points. I don't know if you just don't get them or if they choose for you if you don't pick by then.
Do we know what the delay time is between logging in and getting the points?
There was a message waiting for me in the Qantas app saying to pick which type of points I want, then it said the points would take up to 4 business days to appear in my balance.
I flew 2 weeks ago, my guess would be that it's higher if you're a higher status member because I'm a lowly entry level member.
Decided this afternoon to pack some bread and sausages into a bag and head down to one of the local parks for a BBQ. We've been meaning to go down there for a while, as they've had it closed while they renovate. It's great because they decided to restore part of the creek/wetlands that used to be there many years ago. Now it's a small lake with a little bridge and reeds and other wetland plantings, and the birds have come back! The kids loved it and there was even a cormorant or two! We spent the afternoon barbecuing sausages and bird watching. Then we capped it off with a trip to the 7/11 and Mr Peeler had his first Slurpee. Then he had his first Slurpee brain freeze 😂
I can see why ‘spring cleaning’ is a thing. Opened the curtains up to let some sunshine in, and now I can see all the accumulated dust. I blame the cat.
Just the one, but her fur is omnipresent
E: SHE is omnipresent
Heirlooms have been put back and are now shiny except for the silverware. That's another day.
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Look I've got some brass stuff that's seen better days
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I do use it for summoning family members to dinner. Calling them gimps is going a little bit to far. My favourite word is Street Arabs and I did have to explain what that meant because they did think it was a compliment.
Everything's paid up for the conference I'm going to, got accom sorted and the bank balance isn't looking fab, but with all the food I've got in the fridge and bills paid up, plus no more cat indulgences, I should be fine until the next pay. After that... I think eating out is gonna take a back seat for a while. Might look into weighing up cost of car + maintenance sooner rather than later if it increases options of picking up low stress side gigs. Or maybe I could just indulge in living off my savings for a month once the casual stuff ends, and decide on the car when life plans are a bit more firm. Whatever it is, I'll be doing a lot more home cooking and enjoying it
E: speaking of, broc head #1 vanquished - along with a half open bag of green beans. So good using a more powerful stove, a decent wok, and shaoxing wine (how good is shaoxing wine). Haven't used fresh ginger + garlic in a while too. Could eat this dish on its own tbh.
broccoli
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Broc pasta next on the Iist. Blended into a chunky sauce. I will be 5% broccoli by the end of next week and then refuse to look at one for a month
